ICES ASC
DAY 4
Serge Garcia opened day 4 with an excellent plenary lecture: "From New Atlantis to New Alliance: society, science, governance, and the ecosystem approach to fisheries ".


Tonight's casual dinner party will take
place on the island Uunisaari.


 


 

 
   






Poster session

90 posters have been on display during the week at the Congress Centre. During the poster session yesterday evening the authors presented their results to many of the conference participants.

 
 
Mnemiopsis – invading the northern Baltic
 
The invasive comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi first seen in the southern Baltic Sea in 2006 has now been observed in abundant concentrations in the Åland and Bothnian seas. The extreme adaptability of this species allows it to reproduce under cold conditions, in the deep waters and the small sizes. Since it has probably come to stay we now need to understand more about its significance in the nutrient system of the Baltic Sea.

Juha Flinkman, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Riku Lumiaro
Finnish Institute of Marine Research

 

Theme Session O  "Flying outside the ICES Assessment WG paradigm – Alternative approaches to providing fisheries management advice".

The background to the Theme Session is that ICES Assessment Working Groups are frequently seen as having analytical assessments using catch at age data as their goal, but this approach may not be appropriate in relation to providing ecosystem or community advice or, for example, for stocks which are data poor or where individuals cannot be aged.  Presentations at this theme session covered three themes of alternative assessment methods and models for single stocks ranging from the use of indicators to stock assessment models, fishers involvement in relation to knowledge and objectives, and alternative approaches to management.

Photographs showing technique of underwater TV surveys of Nephrops burrows

Julian Addison (UK), João Pereira (Portugal), and Verena Trenkel

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

Highlights from Thursday 20 September